School of Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media

Turn your appreciation of great music and sound into a brilliant career. Learn about harmony, orchestration, composition and scoring, as well as sound design, editing, and mixing techniques from industry professionals, and apply these skills in film and video game production. Join us today and take the first step toward this exciting and rapidly evolving field.

In the film and visual media industries, the musical supervisor is responsible for sourcing musical content that is not original to the project.

Job Duties:

Understand the requirements and cues for sourced music

Ensure consistency with composed music

Secure rights and releases for sourced music

Job Skills:

Encyclopedic knowledge of existing music

Working knowledge of entertainment copyright law

Ability to collaborate with industry music libraries

As a re-recording mixer, you’ll balance all elements of a film’s soundtrack on a mixing stage to produce the desired emotional responses from the audience

Job Duties:

Evaluate and adjust relationships between soundtrack elements

Incorporate different elements into a master mix

Collaborate with production teams to create balance

Job Skills:

Ability to interpret balances

Technical ability on the latest software and hardware tools

Ability to collaborate with directors and executives

As a sound designer, you’ll be responsible for the overall aural concept of a film or video game.

Job Duties:

Collaborate with other creatives to develop a cohesive sound

Create specific sounds for various visual media

Manage sound teams to create cohesive pieces

Job Skills:

Excellent communication skills

Ability to form conceptual ideas into concrete mixes

Technical skills on the latest hardware and software tools

Using digital audio workstations, the sound editor creates edited reels for all elements of the soundtrack.

Job Duties:

Create sound libraries from raw field recordings

Record raw sounds for sound libraries

Edit soundtrack elements into the film

Job Skills:

Ability to use the latest hardware and software tools

Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

As a foley artist, you’ll perform in-sync sound effects with picture on a foley stage for inclusion in the final soundtrack. Create unique and unforgettable custom sounds and use your creativity to associate moods with cues in the story.

Job Duties:

Create custom sounds in-sync with picture

Organize and find new props for the foley stage

Create “spotting” lists of footsteps and movement of characters on screen

Job Skills:

Performance and physical skills with props

Superior organizational skills

Ability to work under tight deadlines

Working with the production mixer, a production recordist manages the set and location sound recordings.

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We encourage you to explore the limits of your creativity and create your own path to creative fulfillment. Many of our classes can be taken without any prior experience or knowledge; all that's required is a desire to learn and explore. If you’d like to take a class that has a prerequisite, please contact an admissions representative. Once you’ve demonstrated equivalent knowledge or completion of a similar course a representative will assist you with registration.